Essence Quotes
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I really don’t see anything romantic in proposing. It is very romantic to be in love. But there is nothing romantic about a definite proposal. Why, one may be accepted. One usually is, I believe. Then the excitement is all over. The very essence of romance is uncertainty.
Oscar Wilde -
The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.
W. Somerset Maugham
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What is the essence of life? To serve others and to do good.
Aristotle -
Literature is a comprehensive essence of the intellectual life of a nation.
William Shakespeare -
Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?
Igor Stravinsky -
If you distill the essence of everything, what life is about, every single one of us is given a short moment in time on this planet, and we all have one universal need and desire, and that is to be loved and to love. And to deny that for your own political expediency, I don't want to live in that column. It ain't worth it.
Gavin Newsom -
Ingratitude is the essence of vileness.
Immanuel Kant -
The essence of thought, as the essence of life, is growth.
Oscar Wilde
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The energy of the mind is the essence of life.
Aristotle -
Conquering evil, not the opponent, is the essence of swordsmanship.
Yagyu Munenori -
Love can never explain the loved one, my dear. It is the essence of wild unreason.
Han Suyin -
Love is the essence of a full and wonderful life.
Nicholas Sparks -
If you look too closely at the form, you'll miss the essence
Rumi -
Ramadan is, in its essence, a month of humanist spirituality.
Tariq Ramadan
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Nike was the essence of sports, transcendence through sports.
Naomi Klein -
Your relationship with love is your relationship with the essence of who you are. It affects your relationship with your body, and your relationship with food. When you realize that you are a spirit and that this body is a temple, then you want to treat it well.
Marianne Williamson -
Paul's the writer. Yeah, I wrote a little of that stuff, but that's just technically true. In spirit, and in essence of the truth, it doesn't matter. So I don't know, maybe I'm being foolish for not being technical. Yeah, I wrote a certain portion of the things.
Art Garfunkel Simon & Garfunkel -
I watched Janis one time - we opened for her - and that's the only time I ever saw her. We opened for Jimi Hendrix. I got to stand on the side of the stage and watch him for two hours and then he died. But I got the essence before they left.
Stevie Nicks Fleetwood Mac -
Objectivity is of the very essence of photography, its contribution and at the same time its limitation
Paul Strand -
Money is like a canvas or a shape shifter. It's like whatever you project on that canvas, that's what money is for you. Really, in its essence it's power. Most people relate to money the way they relate to power. They either think other people have it, and they don't and they're mad about it, or they feel fearful of it like having it would be a burden or a responsibility.
Anthony Robbins
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The essence of knowledge is self-knowledge.
Plato -
Desire is the essence of a man.
Baruch Spinoza -
If someone praises you with what you are not, they are in essence criticizing you of a deficiency in you.
Wahb ibn Munabbih -
If grace is obligated it is no longer grace. The very essence of grace is that it is undeserved.
R. C. Sproul